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Indian Vehicle Drivers Trade Union, Snehajeevi Drivers’ Trade Union, and Towner Driver Foundation person urged the State authorities to record a Special Leave Petition (SLP) successful the Supreme Court against the High Court bid allowing cognition of motorcycle taxis successful the State.
Addressing presspersons successful Hubballi connected February 19, president of Snehajeevi Drivers Trade Union N.G. Santosh Kumar said that allowing unauthorised motorcycle taxis volition not lone endanger nationalist information but besides summation the fig of roadworthy accidents. It volition besides severely interaction the livelihood of licenced car and taxi drivers who wage taxes.
He said that they besides had launched a missive run nether which thousands of letters had been to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his involution successful the matter.
Raghu Yadav, CEO of Towner Driver Foundation, said that the authorities had failed to instrumentality indispensable enactment to support taxi and car drivers successful Karnataka. He stated that implicit 7 lakh drivers successful the State had contributed much than ₹14,000 crore successful GST and were burdened with slope loans. The authorities had not provided capable societal information to safeguard their livelihoods, helium added.
He argued that drivers should not beryllium classified arsenic gig workers but recognised arsenic tiny concern owners who put astir ₹10 lakh successful vehicles, wage astir ₹2.5 lakh successful taxes, and enactment the automobile sector.
He besides demanded region-wise fare regulation, strict enforcement of authorities rates, abstracted airdrome parking zones for autarkic drivers, peculiar wellness security schemes, and designation of drivers arsenic tiny traders. Office bearers of drivers associations Gandasi Sadanandaswami, Raghu Yadav, Srinivas Babu, Jagadish, Malatesh Kalal and Mujahid Khan were present.
